>From my understanding (and this is from one source so take with a grain of salt), Tambour embroidery has the beads and tambour lace is the chainstitch on a netted background. Both are created with a hook. Tambour: You have for a background cloth a loose weave or netted material that is pulled taught. Your crochet hook should be small enough that it inserts and returns with thread without much difficulty. Either side of the chainstitch w/out beads can be used. With beads, the looped side will be on the backside. Think couching but where the anchor thread would be, you would pull the top thread through to the backside and create a loop. Go to the next anchor spot and pull the thread through making a loop and pull that loop through your first loop, so on and so forth.
Hope this helps, De -----Original Message----- I'm confused about the beads---my understanding of tambour embroidery is that basically you produce a chain stitch. Where do beads come into the picture? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
